• The bank account story. Check out the interest.

• The real meaning of the loss of the extended family. Stress and strain on relationships.

• Supermothers multiply like rabbits. Even the kids have no discretionary time. Unstated assumption: busy hands do no wrong. Raquel's comment: "I know why they're not tired. They delegate everything and don't do any work."

• Lack of time causes us to steal relationships where we can. We stretch a work or school relationship to the breaking point, because there's not enough time left for "get a life." Stretching the relationship means much higher stress.

• Delegating work means accepting someone else's standards. Or at least entertaining their validity claim. Story of the commune and the stove.

• Time for private sphere discourse in good faith.

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